When I turned 50, I said to myself, well, if this is what it's like turning 50, I can't wait to turn 60 because I still felt very, very mentally and physically good, outside my back surgery.

I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I'd be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation.

I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each decade has gone by. So I don't see any I don't see any bitterness about it.

The game of golf doesn't come rushing back to you. Last week I made a couple of fundamental mistakes that I probably wouldn't have made in the heat of the battle back when I was in my heyday, and those things have got to come back.

People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can't do anything in your life when you have it.

So my game is solid. So that obviously makes me feel confident, that like anybody else in this field, you name them, I feel like I've got the ability to win the golf tournament just as much as they have, and that's the way I'm going to take it.

To me I've just really, really found a relaxed, peaceful side of my life and I'm enjoying it.

The players have competed on the level the last 25 or 30 years are always going to be the players that compete at a high level. These guys practice hard, they work on their game, they still hit the ball extremely well.

I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be. I work hard, I push myself hard, and I probably even expect too much of myself.

On 18 you've got to drive it up a gnat's ass.

I'm not interested at all in playing more than 12, 15 tournaments a year on an annual basis because like all the old guys out here on this Tour, we've played golf for nearly 30 years of our lives.

When I turned 50, I said to myself, well, if this is what it's like turning 50, I can't wait to turn 60 because I still felt very, very mentally and physically good, outside my back surgery.

Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British Open, from surgery, which was priority No. 1, did that successfully, and each week since the British Open I've felt in pretty good control of my golf game.

I don't see myself playing or adjusting my schedule for senior tournament golf.

My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body.

I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.

You know, like I said, I'm not going to adjust my Senior Tour schedule.

I think it's great the opportunity is given to all of us really to come out and play major championships after the real major championships have gone beyond us.

Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in.

When you see that many people with a smile on their face, then you must be doing something right.

I've really got no complaints about the way I played, just extremely frustrating with the putter and I'm sure there's a lot of other players saying the same thing except the guy who's going to win the golf tournament.

Being away for the weekends, and me being the international player that I have been for those 30 years, I've spent a lot more time flying around the world, playing different golf tournaments around the world.

That's why we have practice rounds. We make the adjustments as we go around, try and find out how to play the golf course the best we can. No big deal, it's nothing to me, it's the same for me as it is to everybody and we're all trying to understand it.

What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.

Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.

Every time you lose, you think that life's unfair. You think of the bad breaks. But when you're winning and playing well, you still get those bad breaks, only you overcome them. It just depends on how strong your mind is.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference.

We know the goats are imported because they dont speak English.

If you're feeling adventurous, grill up some marinated octopus. It's so healthy.

Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience and their laughter is just as much a part of the album sound as our music. No retakes, no room for error.

It's okay to work for someone else; not everyone is cut out to own a business, and even so, working for someone else is a chance to learn how to both be an employee and an employer.

In moments of pain, we seek revenge.

History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print.

There's a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that terrorized society. And that's, for the last like 10, 15 years, that's all I wanted to do, is terrorize society and make them look into a mirror and see what the hell we have wrought.

Tofu tacos are not Mexican. I think putting tofu on anything and calling it Mexican is an insult to my people.

There are really only two things I'm terrified of: water and cockroaches.

My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair of eyes crumbles the whole rickety structure into rubble.

I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing 'Smog.'

The Lord called me to plant a church.

I was such a geek in school.

I don't deal in terminology, I deal with expressions: colors, shapes, tones, characteristics.

To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?

If a part terrifies me, that is definitely a reason to do it.

We live in such a digital age. Paper is going out of our lives. A poem on paper is tangible.

Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.

Lift up the weak inspire the ignorant. Rescue the failures encourage the deprived Live to give. Dont only hustle for survival. Go and settle for revival

Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy.